Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

2014-09-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Debian bug#746415 for details. Programs like lxterminal and simple xterm work fine, so I’d like to configure Gnome to use one of them instead of the broken gnome-terminal. But I haven’t discovered the right magical incantation to do that yet. Help? Anybody? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 9, 2014, at 12:53 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Enjoy! Rick PS: Now, one remaining question — how do I tell Gnome to use a different terminal program, since gnome-terminal is broken in my environment? Is there a dpkg-reconfig option I can use

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:22 PM, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:42:27 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: rbthomas@debian:/usr/bin$ gnome-terminal Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling

terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Last night I installed Debian Jessie Beta-1 (Gnome) on an old Dell Dimension e310 I had received from a friend. All seems well, except that the “terminal” application (the “root terminal”, also) do not start when I click on the icon. Any thoughts on how to debug this? Thanks! Rick

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/08/14 17:26, B wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:12:11 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: All seems well, except that the “terminal” application (the “root terminal”, also) do not start when I click on the icon. Any thoughts on how to debug this? Install another terminal app

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

2014-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: In this particular case that would mean creating a directory /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount.d/, then placing a .conf file in there setting your custom

Re: [OT] Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

2014-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
, since it's very frequently updated. Enjoy! Rick PS: This is an interesting discussion, but it has wandered a bit OT. So I added [OT] to the subject. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

90-second timeout during boot -- interaction between systemd and encrypted disk with LVM root/swap/home

2014-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
journal that shows the behavior. The delay and timeout occur between 18:54:10 to 18:55:39. NOTE: the root and /home filesystems have already been fsck’ed and mount’ed *well before* the time-out occurs, so it *is* finding the key file. Enjoy! Rick PS: As always, I’m happy to RTFM — if someone

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

2014-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
to! (-; Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/0826730e-604c-45fe-bac5-aaa5d4aad...@pobox.com

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

2014-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
/systemd/system/tmp.mount.d/tmp.mount.conf then reboot. Right? I tried this and it seems to work… Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/9c781fba-35d9-404a

Re: 90-second timeout during boot -- interaction between systemd and encrypted disk with LVM root/swap/home

2014-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2014, at 3:32 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 28.07.2014 10:54, schrieb Rick Thomas: In my continuing quest for enough understanding of systemd to be able to actually use it in real-life situations, I’ve set up a VM running the latest Jessie release. In the spirit

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

2014-07-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:50 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Hi Rick Am 23.07.2014 um 09:12 schrieb Rick Thomas: I’m trying to get /tmp on tmpfs, so I put “RAMTMP=yes” in /etc/default/tmpfs. But I don’t get /tmp/mounted on tmpfs. /etc/default/tmpfs is a sysvinit specific

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-07-26 Thread Rick Thomas
there is a failure and they need to be displayed, but IIUC this is being done anyway. Just a thought, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a56d7ea9-62b0-4427

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

2014-07-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 23 iul 14, 00:12:25, Rick Thomas wrote: I’m trying to get /tmp on tmpfs, so I put “RAMTMP=yes” in /dev/default/tmpfs . But I don’t get /tmp/mounted on tmpfs. What's wrong with fstab? Kind regards

Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

2014-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
on Wheezy… Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/9e4f302e-61a1-41ad-b7f3-8a9ec2d17...@pobox.com

Re: Twitter-Client

2014-07-17 Thread Rick Valenzuela
Hi you all, can you tell me a working twitter-client for debian wheezy? I like Ttytter. Runs well in the background, and if I see somthing I really want to search more about, I use a web browser. .rv -- Rick Valenzuela photojournalist :: videojournalist Phnom Penh, Cambodia +855 92 470

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Rick Thomas
and partition manually if you are using SSD or “advanced format” hard disks. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5813b712-5e4e-4dc7-8f03-a5aa93a66...@pobox.com

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment as all partitions will be automatically

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Pierre, Please post the contents of these files: /etc/adjtime /etc/default/adjtimex /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift Thanks! Rick On Jun 26, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Utilities

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-16 Thread Rick Thomas
/power failures with 100% certainty, doing the backup before you start is a good idea anyway, whether or not you actually need it in the end. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Have you tried rdate -np ? It does the same thing (pretty much) as your ntpdate -qu The big problem with ntpdate and rdate is that they step the clock

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
the clock -- but only once at boot time. The rest of the time it acts as you describe -- which is, as you point out, much better for the usual case. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: If you want to compare the local clock with a remote system's clock (often called skew), the best way I know is with ntpdate -qu. The offset it mentions

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
/etc/localtime file. Presumably dpkg-reconfigure some package but which package? Indeed... Hmmm! Rick On Jun 13, 2014, at 2:03 PM, LVDave wrote: hmmm then that is really weird, as I put an export TZ=PST8PDT in the /etc/profile and once the machine rebooted, the problem disappeared. I do

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
to the very convenient ntpdate -qu {server}. Is there one? Chris Have you tried rdate -np ? It does the same thing (pretty much) as your ntpdate -qu Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ntp and multiple OSes -- Where the UTC goes

2014-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
choice for ubuntu? Older Debian systems used to put the UTC/LOCAL switch in /etc/default/rcS. Ubuntu is based on Debian, so maybe they still have it there? Worth a try, anyway! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
time, taking account of the user's requested timezone, is what Andrei is calling User time. I don't know of a better name for it -- it's usually the object of some circumlocution like What the user sees when she/he types the date(1) command. Hope this helps! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

2014-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
/etc/adjtime cat /etc/default/rcS cat /etc/timezone echo $TZ sudo /sbin/hwclock --debug --show Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20d1ce76-be14

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2014-06-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Hmmm... I originally reported this back in November. After a while, it went away for me. Downloading the latest (about January time-frame) netinst image worked fine -- both Jessie and Wheezy. I haven't tried it recently, though. Possibly a regression? Rick PS: Jessie on a powerpc64 (Apple

Re: How can I benchmark my brand new usb 3.0 WD My Passport hdd

2014-06-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Another measurement you might like to make would be random reads and/or writes. Take a look at the debian package called bonnie++ Provides: bonnie, zcav Description: Hard drive benchmark suite. It is called Bonnie++ because it was based on the Bonnie program. This program also tests

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 8, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 05 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line: It doesn't align to 1MiB boundaries. It doesn't even align to 4KiB boundaries. I think we can do better than that! AFAIK, we do for i686 and amd64, unless

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
be done with (g)parted. Is the partition map on the amd64 machine the one generated by the installer? Or did you tweak it manually? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

What happened to palimpsest disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
disappeared in Jessie. Does anybody know why? And do you have a suggestion for a replacement? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e45a41d6-8f41-4d2b

Re: What happened to palimpsest disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 5, 2014, at 3:24 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: In Wheezy there is a program called palimpsest that gives a nice wide-ranging overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, MD/raid

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell the Debian-installer partitioner to align

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1

How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-04-26 Thread Rick Thomas
? Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/0cf02436-baaf-429a-91be-486eaaf99...@pobox.com

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
the problem. Hope it helps! Good luck and let us know if you come up with something that works! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1bfcb66f-a7ea-4f90-8eda

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

2014-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
. For a fuller explanation, see: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87153.html Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e8bf0d32-9dea-4af5

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
and domain name. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5346b97e.7070...@timshel.ca

Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.

2014-03-20 Thread Rick Thomas
in the Wheezy backports but to no avail. Is there some way to extract just the driver for this printer from a Jessie machine and install it on my Wheezy G5? Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Debian Wheezy 7.4 apt-cacher can only access from localhost

2014-03-19 Thread Rick McCombs AD5DU
I installed Debian Wheezy 7.4 on my Tower and my laptop. I installed apt-cacher on the tower and it work when I use it from localhost. I did not change the default config, which allows connections from any host. I am behind a home gateway and I'm not going to forward the port from the outside.

Solved. Re: Debian Wheezy 7.4 apt-cacher can only access from localhost

2014-03-19 Thread Rick McCombs AD5DU
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/03/14 06:41, Rick McCombs AD5DU wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/03/14 18:18, Rick McCombs AD5DU wrote: I installed Debian

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 14:03:11 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: For what it's worth, if I do dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1 I get the question I expect to see, asking what I want the default printer-paper size to be. So dpkg

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
=low with no success. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/16042430-bea3-4e01-8d21-ca868583a...@pobox.com

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 13:49:34 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: This sent me scurrying to the man pages. I couldn't find any indication of where the already seen flag is kept. Anybody know this? Is there a document I've overlooked

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 10, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 09 Mar 2014 at 17:59:20 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Here is what I get: root@dillserver:~# aptitude show keyboard-configuration You have edited the output this command gave. In ganeral this is not wise. Nope. I

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:03:54AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Mar 10, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 09 Mar 2014 at 17:59:20 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Here is what I get

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! I'll put that in my bag of tricks... On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: In Wheezy, I used to be able to use dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration to (among other things) set

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-10 Thread Rick Thomas
-reconfigure on the install... Fascinating... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ab4369fa-0d77-4f53-9867-34f7c85b2...@pobox.com

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 13:21:58 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks! I'll put that in my bag of tricks... It will take more than a trick to retrieve the situation you are in. Well... It doesn't do this on Wheezy, so it would

What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-09 Thread Rick Thomas
method of configuring the keyboard in Jessie? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/aba2bf3d-b028-4582-be88-3481c7c0e...@pobox.com

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-09 Thread Rick Thomas
from the netinst CD a while ago and updated regularly. Should I file a bug report? Enjoy! Rick On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 09 mar 14, 04:08:06, Rick Thomas wrote: In Wheezy, I used to be able to use dpkg-reconfigure keyboard

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

2014-03-09 Thread Rick Thomas
to this list showing some more detail of what I mean. Rick On Mar 9, 2014, at 7:38 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:08:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: In Wheezy, I used to be able to use dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration to (among other things) set the option to use

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-25 Thread Rick Thomas
configure it) and DHCP. Configuration is remarkably easy -- it uses /etc/hosts and /etc/ethers as input. The ISC dhcp server is much more flexible, but (as a consequence) takes a lot of configuring. Dnsmasq is *way* easier. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
. To do that, you'll have to tweak the kernel command line at grub time to increase the number of loop mount-points from the default eight. I hope this helps put this topic finally to rest... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Richard, On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: To do an install, first you boot from the first DVD. Then switch to the ALT-F2 console, plug in the USB stick and loop mount the BD images it contains. Then, when prompted, tell the installer to use those

Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash

2014-02-08 Thread Rick Thomas
actually happens... Not much chance of that, I'm guessing, but it sure would be interesting! Anybody who works for Seagate on this list? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:25 AM, PaulNM deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: On 02/04/2014 01:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use one during

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
rule of thumb is, Start with twice your RAM and adjust from there depending on experience. Does that help? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/049fb195

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Valenzuela
On 02/03/2014 06:17 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Has anybody else experienced problems over the last couple of days? Or is there a local fix I can apply? I too have had this issue for a couple of days now. Same here, but it went away yesterday. -- Rick Valenzuela Videojournalist Phnom Penh

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
wasted effort by recognizing an update as early as possible. Just a thought... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8351ab1f-d773-4eaf-b029-c988b0f17

Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
-the-shelf HP I7-4470 CPU machine with an NVIDIA GeForce card, somewhere between a GT635 and a GTX660. What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine or VMWare? Regards, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Kernel panics after wheezy upgrade (but blaming hardware)

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
with ivtv some years ago. Any comments about all this? I kind welcome the excuse to buy a new PC with a better video card and more memory (and 64bit), but it would be nice to know what's wrong with the machine before I through it out. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Thanks, Ralf. I do use a couple of 32bit DAWs: Reaper and Power Tracks Pro. I use them in wine but I also have VMWare. If I just stick with the 32bit versions of the DAWs, all the 32bit VST plugins should be OK, right? Or are you saying there could still be issues? Rick On 02/02/14 03:26

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2014-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
for i386 -- and the ppc equivalent of the genisoimage magic you use to make the bootable image. I've CC-ed the installer and powerpc lists, in hopes that someone there can point me in the right direction. Thanks! Rick PS: Sorry I took so long to get back to you on this… Year-end holidays ate

Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
#728936, which renders it impossible to do a normal Sid CD-based installation of my PowerPC Macs, because the USB keyboard and mouse are not recognized. Thanks in advance! Rick PS: It looks like (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/WebInstaller?highlight=%28ssh%29%7C%28server%29%7C

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks for responding, Scott! On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? Yes - at least with the i386

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation

How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Scott. See my notes interlineated below… On Dec 5, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/12/13 13:30, Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. The one that finally got me off the ground

Re: My apologies

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
it civil, shall we folks? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/fec2e8ac-29d9-46cf-932d-3fea6d6f3...@pobox.com

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
. I'd also be interested in discussing (perhaps off-list) what sorts of things I might add to or subtract from it for my own use, if you are amenable. Maybe there's a wiki page on the topic? If not, maybe we could start one? Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
until that issue is resolved? If there's anything I can do as a non-developer -- such as, perhaps, testing new releases on a quick-turnaround basis with non-x86 architectures (I have PowerPC and ARM boxes that I can use for testing) Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/11/13 18:31, Rick Thomas wrote: On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:38 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rick, These instructions should work for Debian as well: http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/05/09/how-to-wordpress-on-ubuntu-gnu-linux/ The main thing is to get Apache PHP configured properly. Once

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
I do when I want to upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie in a year or so? Will I get a toxic mix of Debian-wordpress and wordpress-upstream? In other words, am I stuck on Wheezy until I'm willing to do a complete re-install of wordpress from scratch? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Fwd: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

2013-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
machines and a G5) when it got to the chose language screen, there was no response to the keyboard or the mouse. Anybody know what's up with that? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
/) but they are just hints -- I need a step-by-step for dummies. If you can help me get from 'aptitude install' to a working setup, I'll promise to write it all up for the wiki, so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch. Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
the next person can benefit from our experience. Thanks in advance! Rick On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Sharon Kimble boudic...@talktalk.net wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:39:20 -0800 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from

Can't get C-128 emulation to work in VICE.

2013-11-24 Thread Rick McCombs AD5DU
I am running Wheezy ( I think ) x86_64. using KDE for my desktop. I installed VICE and downloaded the roms according to README_ROMs. I can't get the C128 to run. (The Plus4 doesn't run either but I'm less interested in that.) The 64 but not 64dtv, vic20, PET, and CBM-II work. rick@Ricks

Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-23 Thread Rick Thomas
have done it, I would think -- or what's the point of having a Debian package in the first place? If you have, can you share your recipe? All help will be appreciated! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: wheezy ext4 ?

2013-10-26 Thread Rick Thomas
be no problem at all with that. The code is still in the kernel, and will be for the foreseeable future. Indeed, I do it regularly on my own systems, with no ill effects. Does that help? Rick On Oct 26, 2013, at 1:13 PM, mess-mate messm...@free.fr wrote: Hi, i aborted the install of wheezy. A ext4

ExpressCard and FireWire recommendations

2013-09-09 Thread Rick Valenzuela
, but a search on this list did not show much. I'm running Debian Jessie. Cheers, Rick -- Rick Valenzuela Videojournalist Phnom Penh, Cambodia www.rickv.com GnuPG ID: 0xD5644029 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update

2013-09-03 Thread Rick Valenzuela
this article, about three weeks earlier; possibly relevant? http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/07/25/intel-overclocking-block/1 -- Rick Valenzuela Videojournalist Phnom Penh, Cambodia www.rickv.com GnuPG ID: 0xD5644029 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete

How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
! Thanks in advance! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c922f6d5-ad3e-4c9b-89b7-0c147d920...@pobox.com

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 3, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 07/03/2013 04:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? www.debian.org/CD/‎ First answer from Google Debian powerpc ISO search

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
very promising. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ad3ad43-1253-4e7b-8713-261d89f00...@pobox.com

Re: Separate partitions for filesystems (was Re: computer rendered un-usable)

2013-06-24 Thread Rick Thomas
has the added advantage over traditional partitioning methods that it elegantly handles devices with capacities over 2TiB [2*2^40 bytes]. Most partitioning methods that originated before Y2K have 32 bit fields for block numbers. And 2^32*512 bytes = 2TiB . J. -- Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Having asked the question, I owe the group answers. Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan to do the tests and report back as soon as I can. Well, I finally got a couple of free hours this afternoon. Here's

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy? [CONCLUSION]

2013-06-15 Thread Rick Thomas
! Is /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols a good place to look for other interesting key combos? Thanks to everyone for all the help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Brian, You are absolutely right! Having asked the question, I owe the group answers. Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan to do the tests and report back as soon as I can. Rick On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Brian wrote: He could consider providing

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 09 iun 13, 19:27:35, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have ctrl-alt-del restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with dpkg

Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
. Anybody know what I'm missing? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c22ccb10-8528-4e1b-8754-26911d7d0...@pobox.com

Re: How to partition a 3TB disk? [SOLVED]

2013-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Dan Hitt wrote On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rick, fdisk and cfdisk are being honest with you. 2.19T is the limit. But you can partition it as gpt, and have many many partitions on it, or i believe one huge one. You can use the live gparted cd to do

How to partition a 3TB disk?

2013-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
into one, but that seems like over-kill. Has anybody got a suggestion? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2ff8c478-ceb6-4eb6-ac26-5f55c6ab6

Re: Use case for aptitude-{create,run}-state-bundle ?

2013-05-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 17, 2013, at 7:30 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:24:21 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Can anybody tell me when I might want to use aptitude-{create,run}- state-bundle ? Is it, for example, useful for cloning a machine configuration following a re-install

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